The lines on this are thin for a lot of things, but I'm assuming in this case that "Outside of the US" does include Canada, for once. If so, I'm all for it. (I haven't seen Utena yet, but I'm fairly certain I'll like it enough to buy it. I loved the hell out of Star Driver, therefore...)

I think I read in another post that there was going to be another pre-order sale? Would we be able to wait until then? Or, I guess since it's not known when that will be, it may be too late...

Dallbun wrote:

DiscardedData wrote:

(I haven't seen Utena yet, but I'm fairly certain I'll like it enough to buy it. I loved the hell out of Star Driver, therefore...)

This might be kind of self-evident, but we on the Utena forums definitely recommend the series. The point of connection is screenwriter Yoji Enokido, right? Then yeah, he's pretty great, and if you liked one series that he worked on, it's definitely worth your time to check out the others. (Speaking of which, I should probably check out Star Driver...)

For a new viewer, though, it's a shame only the first third of Utena is coming out to begin with. General consensus is that it's one of those series that gets better as it goes along.

Everybody I talk with says that Star Driver is about 80% of what Utena was in terms of fabulous. Oh god that final episode. I highly recommend watching it.

I've got a hold of the older versions of Utena's release, so I'm going to watch those, and if/when I fall in love with it I'm going to order the new super versions! But we're getting off topic.

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Giovanna wrote:

Yes, Canada counts, and I'll happily do Canada.

Great, thanks! And ah, I get it now. I just had to re-read the post I read once or twice. It would be a deal on the set of all three, but you wouldn't get the special goodie with it.

We usualy get some (mm.mm..to tell the truth- all ) digitall things here... You now...in non-samurai way for free...

What satyr said. We're all...ahem..children of the internets. We know what's out there. But open discussion of piracy, especially in the face of an immediately available and convenient legal release, isn't cool around here, k? And he's right--Nozomi took an unusual and frankly awesome leap of faith on an anime that's no virgin to the US buyer base. It's bothering to hunt down the licenses and argue with the holders of an anime that already got here and had its shot. Nozomi's electing instead to do the extra work and do it right. We can't make you buy their product, but if you're going to gleefully refuse to support the release in favor of torrenting it, don't discuss it here.

As long as you order all three sets from RightStuf directly (as they become available for doing so), you should be good to go for the super special gift.

Gio is providing this service for those who want the special gift, but do not want to go through all of the steps that you have done. In other words, she's being a proxy buyer.

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I just wanted to say, as a non-US fan I want to be thankful to Giovanna for offering this to help those of us outside America. I'm not going to be availing of your generous offer, Gio, because I'm broke and having food/roof over my head/money to go out are my current priorities. But I still want to say a big thank you for this massive effort!

Wow, I didn't know making well below the poverty line each and every year and having to often sell my possessions in order to buy food made me spoiled, and that saving up to purchase something that will make me happy is a denial of my own privilege.  Furthermore, I am now totally enlightened to the fact that asking for people to not boast about illegal activity on a public forum currently being paid visits from the people who legally own the rights to the anime you are bragging about stealing is acting like a mindless, selfish tool to be exploited by the big, bad powerful and uber-rich companies like Nozomi, who will no doubt use our commercialism to buy baby seals to line the interior of their golden limos with, and who haven't provided the least amount of care, effort, time or money into bringing all of us a product that we, personally, will enjoy by doing things such as spending three years negotiating extras for the dvds or asking for and actually utilizing our suggestions for the boxsets.

No, you are right.  YOU deserve to not have to pay for anyone else's hard work, YOU deserve to be able to rudely judge and try to control how other's spend the money they worked hard to make, and YOU deserve to make assumptions about people and corporations in order to rationalize your own behavior.

OH AND I HAVE ALSO LEARNED HOW TO FEED STARVING PEOPLE AND HOUSE THE POOR BY STEALING ANIME.  You are truly a revolutionary, Saio.

Last edited by OnlyInThisLight (04-18-2011 05:25:40 PM)

Wow, this last week or so has brought us all kinds of examples of how not to argue, hasn't it?   We've banned Saio for a week.  (Good rule of thumb: the phrase "fuck all of you" is usually abuse.)  The merits and flaws of capitalism and copyright law are interesting to talk about, but amazingly, this can be done without calling anyone an infant or accusing anyone of complicity in other people's starvation.  Maybe some other time!

Now, back to our regularly scheduled thread, in which Gio generously offers her time and help to anyone abroad who wants to pay for a show that's worth paying for. 

Excellent! Any biters for the international shipping can grab both from me at once.

Also, I could swear I recognize the coloring on the rotating images at the top of that pretty website. Or I'm an egomaniac.

I'm pretty much a lurker on this board, but I really have to come out of the shadows to get my hands on the delicious remaster.

I just want to say that you are awesome for doing this. The international ordering on the RightStuf website confuses me so bad.


I live in the UK, and if all the boxsets are around $40 then I'll definitely have enough for it. Only thing that worries me is cost of postage and packaging. I've never ordered anything from the U.S. before, so I have absolutely no idea how much it would cost, or which service is best to go for.

Then there's the whole thing with import tax and handling fees - when I ordered something from Hong Kong using FedEx, I was hit with a bill that was half of what the item was worth. I hear that you're much less likely to be hit with the tax if you choose a slower delivery option though. I'm perfectly fine with waiting a few more months for it to arrive if that's the case.

Is there something I can use to work out the approx. cost of postage? I think I'll end up going slow and cheap.

Also, I assume I'll be paying with Paypal?

Reminder, guys! Cutoff is the 15th, so if you want box sets, you better get PMing me!